Spiritual Warfare Booklet A4.pdf - Bible Baptist Church of Blarney

Spiritual WarfareGod’s Secret Weapons Against Our Real EnemiesGod’s Secret Weapons Against Our Real EnemiesDaniel 10:2-13,19I. Introduction (2 Cor 10:4,5)A. The weapons of our warfare are NOT physical – List some physical weapons: Fists, Yelling, Tears,Fingernails, Silence, Poison, And that is just over-the-counter stuff!B. A Christian’s weapons are ONLY spiritual – just as real, but not made out of hands, metal, stone,wood, explosives, etc. But rather, spiritual in constructionC. If you feel naked, and worthless in the battle’s you face as a Christian, it may be only because youdo not know just how powerful the spiritual weapons that God has given you really are!!!II. Review – Discerning Spiritual Attacks – Last week we learned:A. Spiritual attacks affects our Attitude toward God - Our Heart!1. Brings on Depression2. Gets us to think about Quitting3. Brings up Anger and Bitterness about people and the past4. Makes us numb to the voice of the Holy SpiritB. Spiritual Attacks affect our Ability to Live (Job 3:20-22; 1Kg 19:1-4; Jonah 4:1-3, 8) – Our ResolveC. Spiritual Attacks affect your ability to Think (1Cor 14:33; 2Cor 10:4,5) – Our Mind - clouds yourminds.D. Spiritual attacks affects others (Josh 7:20-26; Heb 12:14,15) – Our WorldE. Christians don’t HAVE to let this happen (Romans 6:14; 5:20; 2Cor 12:9)! We need to amass somestronger weapons against this attacks – props/walls that can hold us and our families up against thisbarrages.III. Discerning Spiritual AttacksA. How can I tell that I am experiencing a spiritual attack? The answer is… when any of the above isoccurring in your mind and heart!B. How can I refrain from using physical efforts and weapons in responding to that attack?1. Train yourself to over-ride your instincts, and replace all the “normal” responses with God’s ordainedresponses2. This is what happens in the military when they are training men who would instinctively RUNfrom gunfire, to instead face into it and defeat it!3. Christians MUST see themselves as in training for a much bigger and more important battlethan world warfare!IV. Brief Description of Our Spiritual Weapons - What Weapons are at a Christian’s disposal?A. Ephesians 6:10-18 is a general collection of armour1. Your loins girt about with truth – your life covered FIRST with truth, like an undergarment,upon which all the other armour rests2. Breastplate of Righteousness3. Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace – prepared to go anywhere, andready to preach the Gospel to anyone4. The shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.5. The helmet of salvation6. The sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:7. Prayer - Praying alwaysB. What follows is a complete list from not only Ephesians 6, but also from other Scriptures. Hopefullyyou will understand that as Christians, we have a VERY large and effective arsenal of weaponry touse against our enemies!Page 5